The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-30
NUMBER 80.

Ashby District gave 500 Prohibition
majority, and the HaTrisburgh District
244. The other two districts are
claimed by the Prohibitionists by
smaller majorities.
The missing tug Jennie King has
been found and taken to South Haven,
Michigan. She had two men on board
who were t~hirty-six hours without
food.
"A telegram from the City of Mex
leo reports that the guests who on the
25th, gathered to celebrate the
marriage of Benito Hernandez and
Juanita Alvidez, near Merida, IN Yu-
catan, became involved in a general
fight. Several of them, including the
groom. were killed. The wife of Mar
Gus, a ranchman of Tamaulipas, Mex
leo, recently ran away with a neigh
boris son. Her husband pursued them
and found them in a hotel. Going to
their room at night he tapped at the
door. The youth opened it and was
shot dead. Marcus then shot and NOR
tally wounded his wife, and committed
suicide by stabbing himself to the
heart. In Cincinnati on the morning
Of the 26th, Henry Heile, who had
DUEL luliNtly lilodllC AOl IJAblAy q CuA
felled his wife to the floor with a
Ratchet. He then went TO the bed
where their two children were lying
and aimed IA blow at them. The wife,
who had recovered consciousness,
threw herself between the maniac and
the children and received the blow
upon her head, but the force of the
blow was broken by a thick roll of hair.
She then threw open the window and
screamed for help and her husband fled
to the kitchen, where he cut his throat
with a knife. At Jefferson City, Mis-
sour, on the goth, ~eX-Supreme Judge
John Henry and state Auditor Walker
quarTelled ON the street, and Judge
Henry was shot nee in the right arm
and again in the breast, and walker
was severely cut IN the head, by a blow
from Judge Henry's cane. The affair
grew out of an investigation OF Walker
by a Legislative committee, before
which Henry was a witness.
"A special train arrived at Topeka,
Kansas, ON the Goth ult., having on
board a party of injured men, consist
ing of Lieutenant Governor Biddle,
Secretary of State Allen and State
Auditor Mccarthy, of the Kansas
Board of Railroad Assessors. who have
been making a tour of inspection over
the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska
road. They were accompanied by
President Low and General Manager
Fischer, and, with the entire train
crew, were more or less bruised and
injured. The party left Horton on the
Goth. to go West on the Atchison
branch of the Rock Island, and one
mile west of that place the train was
hurled down an embankment 25 feet
high. Mr.. Allen was hurt the most
severely, but rot dangerously so. A
train of fifty loaded coal cars on the
Erie Railroad ran away neal Big
Shanty, Penna., on the morning of the
18th, and jumped the track while 60
ing at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
The train was completely wrecked,
and brakemen Lacroix and Crawson
were dangerously injured. Lacroix, it
is thought, will die.
a derrick upon the new Capitol
terrace in Washington fell on the
morning Of the 26th. injuring two
men, one, named Rely, perhaps fa-
tally. At Topeka, Kansas, on the Goth,
AlCilig LNhS 10. W NIX HnllttLS lllC iIoluC
of a huge vat in a vinegar factory with
a patent preparation, was overcome by
the odOr and persisted from asphyxla.
G. b. Post, a prominent merchant of
Centreville, Penna., was killed on the
morn NJ of the 10Th by a kick from a
colt. During the passage of a Memo
rial Day procession in Atlanta, on the
2oth, a runaway horse caused a panic
by tTampling down the people. Several
persons had limbs broken, and one old
lady was SO badly kicked in the head
that her recovery is doubtful.
M. j. Seaman, a freight brakeman
on the Fort Wayne Railroad, was ar
rested in PitIsburg OF the 26th, on a
charge of robblng freight trains. This
is the first arrest made outside OF tie
wholesale arrests on the Panhandle.
Others will follow, however, as it is
stated that the Pennsylvania Com
pany has evidence duplicating a num-
Der of employees on their various lines.
Willis Brothers grocery, in AL
legheny City, PeDna., was burned on
the morning of the Goth. Tie upper
part of the building was occupied by
the Willis family and some dodgers.
Two men, named Eberman and Hog
gitzrun, were fatally injured by jump
ing from windows, and after the fire
was extingulsEed the dead bodies of
Sophie Boles and Frederick Shultz
were found on the fourth floor. The
loss ON property Is about $4,000. 1t s
supposed the fire was started by an ex-
plosIon of natural gas.
In PauldIng county, Ohio, on the
25th, two hundred masked men over
powered the guards at the reservoir,
blew ny the banks, and, saturating the
locks and timber with Oil, burned
them. On the afternoon of the Goth,
the Governor ordered the Tolelo COM
pany of National Guards to The scene
Of the riot.
"A. B. Falk, of New York City,
arrived in Chicago on the evening of
the 25th, and put up at a hotel. Dur
ing the night his room was entered,
aud his gold watch and chain, valued
at 1915 were stolen, with a small sum
of money.